Mid-American
13 current members, five former. Our membership records under this name start in 1947. 2025 champion: Western Michigan.
1982 standings
| Team | Conf. | Overall | AP | Elo | Last 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7–2 | 7–5 | 1500 | WWLLL | |||
| 5–2–2 | 7–2–2 | 1558 | LWWWT | |||
| 5–3 | 7–4 | 1535 | LWWLL | |||
| 5–3–1 | 6–4–1 | 1534 | WWLWL | |||
| 5–4 | 6–5 | 1522 | LWLLW | |||
| 5–4 | 6–5 | 1429 | WLLLW | |||
| 5–4 | 5–5 | 1456 | WLWWW | |||
| 4–4 | 5–6 | 1417 | WWLLW | |||
| 1–7–1 | 1–9–1 | 1213 | LLWLT | |||
| 0–9 | 0–11 | 1241 | LLLLL |
Ordered by conference winning percentage, then conference wins. Division splits and tiebreakers aren’t applied. AP: the AP poll, final (else the final AP rank). Elo is our own rating, a measure of strength, not a prediction.
Against other conferences, 1982
Mid-American teams are 8–14 outside the conference.
- FCS teams6–5
- Big Ten1–3
- PCAA0–2
- ACC0–1
- Big Eight0–1
- Independent0–1
- Missouri Valley Conference0–1
- Others1–0
The bar is the share of those games won. Games against teams from lower divisions count together.
Champions
Most titles
| Miami (OH) | 17 | last 2023 |
| Toledo | 12 | last 2022 |
| Bowling Green | 12 | last 2015 |
| Central Michigan | 7 | last 2009 |
| Ohio | 6 | last 2024 |
| Northern Illinois | 6 | last 2021 |
| Ball State | 6 | last 2020 |
| Delaware | 6 | last 1969 |
| Marshall | 5 | last 2002 |
| Western Michigan | 4 | last 2025 |
By year
| 2025 | Western Michigan |
| 2024 | Ohio |
| 2023 | Miami (OH) |
| 2022 | Toledo |
| 2021 | Northern Illinois |
| 2020 | Ball State |
| 2019 | Miami (OH) |
| 2018 | Northern Illinois |
| 2017 | Toledo |
| 2016 | Western Michigan |
| 2015 | Bowling Green |
| 2014 | Northern Illinois |
67 earlier seasons, back to 1947
Conference titles as each program’s Wikipedia infobox lists them (CC BY-SA), shared titles counted for every co-champion; the conference’s earlier names count as the same conference.
Members
Every school and its years (18)
Members now
- Miami (OH) 1947 on
- Ohio 1947 on
- Western Michigan 1948 on
- Kent State 1951 on
- Bowling Green 1952 on
- Toledo 1952 on
- Ball State 1973 on
- Central Michigan 1975 on
- Eastern Michigan 1976 on
- Akron 1992 on
- Buffalo 1999 on
- Massachusetts 2012–2015, 2025 on
- Sacramento State 2026 on
Former members
- Northern Illinois 1975–1985, 1997–2025
- Temple 2007–2011
- Marshall 1954–1968, 1997–2004
- UCF 2002–2004
- Cincinnati 1947–1952
Football membership as CollegeFootballData.com records it under this conference’s name, from 1947; a school’s separate stays are listed apart.
Who came and went
| Season | School | Move | Announced | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Northern Illinois | Left for Mountain West Conference (football only) | January 7, 2025 | |
| 2026 | Sacramento State | Joined from Big Sky (football only) | February 15, 2026 | |
| 2025 | Massachusetts | Joined (independent before) (football only) | February 26, 2024 | |
| 2016 | Massachusetts | Left to play as an independent (football only) | March 26, 2014 | |
| 2012 | Massachusetts | Joined from CAA (football only) | April 20, 2011 | |
| 2012 | Temple | Left for Big East (football only) | Source | |
| 2007 | Temple | Joined (independent before) (football only) | Source | |
| 2005 | Marshall | Left for Conference USA | Source | |
| 2005 | UCF | Left for Conference USA | Source | |
| 2002 | UCF | Joined (independent before) (football only) | Source | |
| 1998 † | Buffalo | Joined (independent before) | Source | |
| 1997 | Marshall | Joined from Southern Conference | Source | |
| 1997 | Northern Illinois | Joined from Midwestern Collegiate Conference | Source | |
| 1992 | Akron | Joined (independent before) | Source | |
| 1986 | Northern Illinois | Left to play as an independent (football only) | Source |
Football moves from Wikipedia’s lists of NCAA Division I conference changes; the season is the first one played in the new conference, and the date the one the lists or their sources give for the announcement. † Our membership records (CollegeFootballData.com) date the move to another season, or don’t show it. SportsDataverse’s football memberships agree with ours in all 769 team-seasons from 1947. the member tables in the conference’s Wikipedia article agree with ours in all 13 team-seasons from 2002. Conference realignment: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA); memberships: SportsDataverse.
Honors while members
Consensus All-Americans 13
| Ball State | 2 |
| Toledo | 2 |
| Western Michigan | 2 |
| Akron | 1 |
| Bowling Green | 1 |
NFL first-round picks 18
| Marshall | 3 |
| Central Michigan | 2 |
| Eastern Michigan | 2 |
| Miami (OH) | 2 |
| Northern Illinois | 2 |
Counted only in seasons a school was a member on file (from 1947); a draft pick counts for the season before the draft. Heisman and All-America lists from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), draft picks from CollegeFootballData.com.
The money
The Mid-American Conference is a nonprofit. Its IRS Form 990 for the year to June 2025 reports $43.3 million in revenue, $22.4 million of it from college football playoff, and $43.1 million in expenses; it ended the year with $17.7 million in assets. Its best-paid, commissioner/treasurer Dr Jon Steinbrecher, was paid $850,000.
By year
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Top pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | $43.3M | $43.1M | $17.7M | $850K |
| 2023-24 | $39.0M | $37.4M | $15.2M | $829K |
| 2022-23 | $36.6M | $34.5M | $13.3M | $856K |
| 2021-22 | $35.7M | $33.6M | $10.4M | $807K |
| 2020-21 | $28.2M | $27.3M | $9.6M | $767K |
| 2019-20 | $32.2M | $31.6M | $6.9M | $780K |
| 2018-19 | $30.8M | $31.3M | $12.1M | $755K |
| 2017-18 | $33.7M | $32.8M | $12.6M | $757K |
| 2016-17 | $34.7M | $35.1M | $11.6M | |
| 2015-16 | $29.7M | $28.6M | $6.3M | |
| 2014-15 | $24.5M | $23.8M | $6.4M | |
| 2013-14 | $12.7M | $12.7M | $4.8M | |
| 2012-13 | $23.3M | $23.4M | $8.8M | |
| 2011-12 | $17.7M | $16.8M | $7.1M | |
| 2010-11 | $12.3M | $10.1M | $3.5M |
Best paid, 2024-25
| Dr Jon Steinbrecher, commissioner/treasurer | $850,000 |
| Chris Turner, deputy commissioner/COO | $250,000 |
| Roderick Stokes, sr.assoc.commissioner-basketball | $240,000 |
| Mike Vuraich, associate commissioner/CFO | $190,000 |
| Kristin Williams, sr.assoc.comm.-inst.svcs.&sr.woman admin. | $166,000 |
Grants it lists, 2024-25
| Miami (OH) | general fund support | $3.2 million |
| State University of New York at Buffalo | general fund support | $3.2 million |
| Northern Illinois | general fund support | $3.1 million |
| Bowling Green State University | general fund support | $3.1 million |
| Western Michigan | general fund support | $3.1 million |
| Ohio | general fund support | $3.1 million |
| Toledo | general fund support | $2.9 million |
| The University of Akron | general fund support | $2.8 million |
4 more
| Kent State | general fund support | $2.6 million |
| Ball State | general fund support | $2.5 million |
| Eastern Michigan | general fund support | $2.5 million |
| Central Michigan | general fund support | $2.5 million |
From the organization’s IRS Form 990, via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer and the IRS’s e-file data. Fiscal years end in June; top pay is the best-paid person’s total compensation on the return, listed for e-filed years (2018 on). Grants are the ones the conference lists on Schedule I; bowl payments are the ones bowls list on theirs. See every filing at ProPublica (EIN 31-0682486).